Such a mapping plan is very different from that occurring in the cerebral cortex, where the spatial relations between areas of the body surface are retained in the cortical regions that respond to and send signals to those areas.

• 这种图谱与发生在大脑皮质的分布非常不同，大脑皮质接收来自体表的感觉输入，也会输出讯号到体表各区域，但不管是输入或输出，体表各区域之间的空间关系都保存在大脑皮质里。